We made sure that it was built with interior corridors, the largest meeting space in Boerne, gift shop, extensive free continental breakfast in the Holiday Inn �Great Room�, free High Speed Internet access in every guest room, guest coin laundry, business center and all of the other amenities that the educated traveler is looking for in a hotel product today.�
 
�There is very definitely a strong market for this product.� according to Paul Thomas, Corporate Director of Marketing for Lodging Host.  �The hotel market in Boerne is in need of an up to date product.  This is the right product in the right market.   This product also fits well into our current program of cross marketing of our hotels throughout the state of Texas.  With two hotels already in the North San Antonio area and a fourth product opening in downtown in July of this year we are building a strong representation in the area.  We will offer our �First Choice� corporate program at the hotel.�
 
Lodging Host Operates the Inn at Saint Mary�s, South Bend, Indiana. David Michel, General Manager of the Inn at Saint Mary�s said, �I know that this property will be a great addition to the Lodging Host family of properties.  Our hotels are known for their superior service levels.  In 2000 for the 1999-year, we were awarded 6 franchise awards.  That year, 1999, we had 9 hotels in our portfolio and only 7 of them were franchises. That is a phenomenal level of achievers.�
 
Lodging Host, which has been in business and based out of Longview, Texas since 1984, currently operates twelve properties in Texas, three more in Louisiana, the Washington DC area and Indiana with five more projects under construction, four of which are in Texas for 2001 and 2002 openings.